Cook Inlets declining natural gas: Should we worry about keeping our homes warm? - Tim Bradner, Alaska Journalist and Publisher

Tim Bradneris publisher of the Alaska Economic Report and Alaska Legislative Digest, and has written extensively on Alaska natural resource and economic issues.  He has lived and worked in Alaska since 1962, attending the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and then working as a reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Tundra Times, an Alaska Native weekly newspaper. As a journalist Bradner covered the Alaska Native lands claims movement in the 1960s and its settlement in 1971, the major oil discoveries on the North Slope and early planning for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. He joined BPs external affairs group in 1970 and represented the company before the state Legislature until 1985. His work for BP gave him working insights into an international energy company as well as Alaskas efforts in oil and gas tax and environmental policy. He attended Harvards Kennedy School of Government in 1985 and 1986 and returned to Alaska with a Master of Public Administration. Since 1986 Bradner has been co-publisher of the family-owned Alaska Legislative Digest and Alaska Economic Report with his brother Mike, now deceased. The publishing business he started with his now-deceased brother, Mike, he now continues with his wife, Shehla Anjum, an editor, and his daughter Saira, who manages the companys information systems.